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INDEX 2 · News 3 · Opinion 4 · Lifestyle 5 · Sudoku 6 · Classifi eds 8 · Sports
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 192, NO. 33
Redshirt
freshman
Matt Fink
and the
football team
cruised to
victory this
weekend.
PAGE 8 DAILY TROJAN
Photo courtesy of Keck School of Medicine of USC
New leadership · Laura Mosqueda was formerly the chair of the
Department of Family Medicine and associate dean of primary care.
By ISABEL HANEWICZ
Assistant City Editor
USC named Laura Mosqueda,
chair of the Department of Family
Medicine and associate dean of
primary care, the interim dean
of the Keck School of Medicine
on Friday. Her provisional
appointment comes in the wake of
administrative issues at Keck that
have led to the resignations of the
last two deans within a two-year
span.
“Dr. Mosqueda will work
closely with President [C.L. Max]
Nikias and me to support you
as we strengthen and improve
the culture at the Keck School,”
Provost Michael Quick said in
a memo on Friday addressed to
Keck students, faculty and staff.
Earlier that day, Keck hosted
a town hall to allow students
to express their concerns and
frustrations about the school’s
administration. Rohit Varma
resigned as dean of the Keck
School of Medicine on Thursday,
less than a year after starting the
job.
On the same day, the Los
Angeles Times revealed he had
been disciplined for sexual
harassment in 2003. His
predecessor, Carmen Puliafito,
reportedly engaged in drug-fueled
misconduct and associated with
convicted criminals during his
term, according to a July report
from the Times.
In front of a full crowd at the
Mayer Auditorium on the Health
Sciences Campus, Keck officials
reiterated the University’s
commitment to students’
education in the wake of the
administrative scandals. Students
also voiced their concerns
regarding the disruptions in the
past year.
“I know in the past 18 months
we’ve gone through some turmoil,
but rest assured that under
no circumstances [do] these
experiences and challenges …
diminish the Keck profile that we
assured you we were going to work
on from the time you matriculated
at this institution,” Vice Dean of
Medical Education Henri Ford
told the crowd.
Ryan Kraus, a medical student
at Keck, opened the Q&A session
by asking how the University
recommends students confront
any doubts potential employers
may have about the quality of a
USC education because of Keck’s
leadership. After the report about
Puliafito came out, Kraus said he
faced questions about the former
dean during an interview. Now, he
is worried the same will happen
regarding Varma.
Associate Dean for Student and
Educational Affairs Donna Elliott
told students to expect questions.
Elliott advised students to reframe
the narrative to focus on their
Keck education and not on issues
with the Keck administration.
Keck will provide students with
talking points for their interviews
to ensure they can avoid discussing
the Keck administration, Elliott
said. She also emphasized how
the Keck education “has not been
compromised by any of these
events,” and said that the process
of finding a replacement dean
could take up to a year.
Other students at the town
hall criticized the University’s
handling of the situation. Some
noted they found out about
Varma’s sexual harassment
allegations first from a Times
article and not directly from Keck.
Jeremy Hardin, a medical
student at Keck, read out a
printed letter detailing his
concerns with USC’s actions.
Hardin praised Ford, Elliott and
the rest of the Keck academic
deans for their work, but noted
his disappointment with what
he sees as a lack of institutional
responsibility in a “culture [that]
endorses the obfuscation of truth.”
“This problem is bigger than
all of us,” Hardin said. “It involves
the hidden mechanisms of power
at USC that none of us can seem
to touch, and until we hold those
in power accountable together,
as a united group of principled
students and faculty, I see no
reason why we should expect
anything to change.”
Varma’s resignation came as the
USC names interim dean for Keck School of Medicine
Her appointment follows the
abrupt resignation of Dean
Rohit Varma last week.
| see KECK, page 2 |
Photo courtesy of Anthea Xiao
Building a community · (From left to right) Simran Singh, Michelle Dai, Aimee Xu and Amanda Douglas, who
founded the Smart Woman Securities USC chapter, aim to build a strong support system for women interested in fi nance.
By ANTHEA XIAO
Staff Writer
Women at USC may be getting
a new chance to break the glass
ceiling.
USC is the latest university to
found a chapter of Smart Woman
Securities, a national nonprofi t
organization that focuses on
fi nance and investment education
for female undergraduate students.
USC is the 25th school in 2017 to
start an SWS chapter, through the
efforts of four co-founders who felt
empowered to create a chapter to
improve female students’ fi nancial
literacy.
“The driving incentive for
initiating a SWS chapter on USC
campus was largely due to the
gender imbalance within the
fi nance sector,” co-founder Aimee
Xu said.
In addition to Xu, a junior
majoring in applied mathematics
and business, the USC chapter of
SWS was co-founded by business
administration students — junior
Simran Singh, junior Michelle Dai
and sophomore Amanda Douglas.
“I think the biggest [incentive]
is honestly just the lack of a
community on campus that
really supports women interested
in fi nance — whether it be for
professional career reasons, or
just for personal fi nance reasons,”
Xu said. “You see a handful of
women’s leadership groups on
campus ... but none of them really
focus on ensuring that women are
fi nancially literate, and can pull
off managing their own personal
fi nances.”
USC founded its chapter at a time
when SWS is building its presence
on the West Coast, with Stanford
University and UC Berkeley
chapters founded in 2015 and 2016,
respectively. The organization is
popular among most Ivy League
universities and East Coast colleges
due to their close proximity to
fi nancial centers like Wall Street.
USC does not lack professionally
oriented fi nance organizations,
Xu said, but the demographic
of women in fi nance at USC is
incredibly small compared to the
number of men.
“SWS is unique in that it focuses
both on fi nancial careers and
the skills that are technical and
qualitative that are necessary to
enter a fi nancial career,” Singh said.
But the organization also
emphasizes personal budgeting and
fi nancial literacy that is applicable
Smart Woman Securities
is an educational finance
group for female students.
| see SWS, page 2 |
Female fi nance organization
launches chapter on campus

INDEX 2 · News 3 · Opinion 4 · Lifestyle 5 · Sudoku 6 · Classifi eds 8 · Sports
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 192, NO. 33
Redshirt
freshman
Matt Fink
and the
football team
cruised to
victory this
weekend.
PAGE 8 DAILY TROJAN
Photo courtesy of Keck School of Medicine of USC
New leadership · Laura Mosqueda was formerly the chair of the
Department of Family Medicine and associate dean of primary care.
By ISABEL HANEWICZ
Assistant City Editor
USC named Laura Mosqueda,
chair of the Department of Family
Medicine and associate dean of
primary care, the interim dean
of the Keck School of Medicine
on Friday. Her provisional
appointment comes in the wake of
administrative issues at Keck that
have led to the resignations of the
last two deans within a two-year
span.
“Dr. Mosqueda will work
closely with President [C.L. Max]
Nikias and me to support you
as we strengthen and improve
the culture at the Keck School,”
Provost Michael Quick said in
a memo on Friday addressed to
Keck students, faculty and staff.
Earlier that day, Keck hosted
a town hall to allow students
to express their concerns and
frustrations about the school’s
administration. Rohit Varma
resigned as dean of the Keck
School of Medicine on Thursday,
less than a year after starting the
job.
On the same day, the Los
Angeles Times revealed he had
been disciplined for sexual
harassment in 2003. His
predecessor, Carmen Puliafito,
reportedly engaged in drug-fueled
misconduct and associated with
convicted criminals during his
term, according to a July report
from the Times.
In front of a full crowd at the
Mayer Auditorium on the Health
Sciences Campus, Keck officials
reiterated the University’s
commitment to students’
education in the wake of the
administrative scandals. Students
also voiced their concerns
regarding the disruptions in the
past year.
“I know in the past 18 months
we’ve gone through some turmoil,
but rest assured that under
no circumstances [do] these
experiences and challenges …
diminish the Keck profile that we
assured you we were going to work
on from the time you matriculated
at this institution,” Vice Dean of
Medical Education Henri Ford
told the crowd.
Ryan Kraus, a medical student
at Keck, opened the Q&A session
by asking how the University
recommends students confront
any doubts potential employers
may have about the quality of a
USC education because of Keck’s
leadership. After the report about
Puliafito came out, Kraus said he
faced questions about the former
dean during an interview. Now, he
is worried the same will happen
regarding Varma.
Associate Dean for Student and
Educational Affairs Donna Elliott
told students to expect questions.
Elliott advised students to reframe
the narrative to focus on their
Keck education and not on issues
with the Keck administration.
Keck will provide students with
talking points for their interviews
to ensure they can avoid discussing
the Keck administration, Elliott
said. She also emphasized how
the Keck education “has not been
compromised by any of these
events,” and said that the process
of finding a replacement dean
could take up to a year.
Other students at the town
hall criticized the University’s
handling of the situation. Some
noted they found out about
Varma’s sexual harassment
allegations first from a Times
article and not directly from Keck.
Jeremy Hardin, a medical
student at Keck, read out a
printed letter detailing his
concerns with USC’s actions.
Hardin praised Ford, Elliott and
the rest of the Keck academic
deans for their work, but noted
his disappointment with what
he sees as a lack of institutional
responsibility in a “culture [that]
endorses the obfuscation of truth.”
“This problem is bigger than
all of us,” Hardin said. “It involves
the hidden mechanisms of power
at USC that none of us can seem
to touch, and until we hold those
in power accountable together,
as a united group of principled
students and faculty, I see no
reason why we should expect
anything to change.”
Varma’s resignation came as the
USC names interim dean for Keck School of Medicine
Her appointment follows the
abrupt resignation of Dean
Rohit Varma last week.
| see KECK, page 2 |
Photo courtesy of Anthea Xiao
Building a community · (From left to right) Simran Singh, Michelle Dai, Aimee Xu and Amanda Douglas, who
founded the Smart Woman Securities USC chapter, aim to build a strong support system for women interested in fi nance.
By ANTHEA XIAO
Staff Writer
Women at USC may be getting
a new chance to break the glass
ceiling.
USC is the latest university to
found a chapter of Smart Woman
Securities, a national nonprofi t
organization that focuses on
fi nance and investment education
for female undergraduate students.
USC is the 25th school in 2017 to
start an SWS chapter, through the
efforts of four co-founders who felt
empowered to create a chapter to
improve female students’ fi nancial
literacy.
“The driving incentive for
initiating a SWS chapter on USC
campus was largely due to the
gender imbalance within the
fi nance sector,” co-founder Aimee
Xu said.
In addition to Xu, a junior
majoring in applied mathematics
and business, the USC chapter of
SWS was co-founded by business
administration students — junior
Simran Singh, junior Michelle Dai
and sophomore Amanda Douglas.
“I think the biggest [incentive]
is honestly just the lack of a
community on campus that
really supports women interested
in fi nance — whether it be for
professional career reasons, or
just for personal fi nance reasons,”
Xu said. “You see a handful of
women’s leadership groups on
campus ... but none of them really
focus on ensuring that women are
fi nancially literate, and can pull
off managing their own personal
fi nances.”
USC founded its chapter at a time
when SWS is building its presence
on the West Coast, with Stanford
University and UC Berkeley
chapters founded in 2015 and 2016,
respectively. The organization is
popular among most Ivy League
universities and East Coast colleges
due to their close proximity to
fi nancial centers like Wall Street.
USC does not lack professionally
oriented fi nance organizations,
Xu said, but the demographic
of women in fi nance at USC is
incredibly small compared to the
number of men.
“SWS is unique in that it focuses
both on fi nancial careers and
the skills that are technical and
qualitative that are necessary to
enter a fi nancial career,” Singh said.
But the organization also
emphasizes personal budgeting and
fi nancial literacy that is applicable
Smart Woman Securities
is an educational finance
group for female students.
| see SWS, page 2 |
Female fi nance organization
launches chapter on campus